Fossils

[courage7856]

It was just identified as a "piece of a leg" so we tried to generalize the type of dinosaur from that, then got the diet. I'm pretty sure we settled on herbivore.

[Guy]

I would guess it would've been a bird-hipped dinosaur. For ornithiscians, they're all herbivores. But for lizard-hipped (saurischians) they could be theropods (carnivores) or sauropods (herbivores). I don't see another way to figure it out from just leg bones, so even if I didn't know about the hip structures, then I would put herbivore. On the other hand, if the hip structure looked like a saurischian then I have no clue what to do.

[blufoster6]

If was a saurischian, your best bet would be carnivore because that's what most of them are.

[Deeisenberg]

There is also the possibility that the event supervisor didn't know what he was doing and picked a sample which he had in his collection without anything defining unless you had outside information. Don't dwell on it too much.

[soobsession]

this is kinda why i like invertebrates...theyre so easy! the only thing i didnt expect on the test was half a...i believe it was a blastoid. everything else was so easy because they were all invertebrates except for one osteichthyan, and two plants no dinos...or for that matter...a fraction of a bone of a dino

[blufoster6]

Fish are really easy though. There are only like 3 or 4 all you have to know and they are really different.

[soobsession]

yup...and plants arent horrible either. especially if theyre just asking you about kingdom or phylum (yes, they asked about kingdom) so my test was supereasy

[blufoster6]

Are you serious!! They asked you the kingdom of Plants!!! They really shouldn't have had that question the test, it's just to easy!! A 1st grader could have answered that question with ease!!!

[gneissisnice]

Ewww plants. I know them, but theyre still icky.

[courage7856]

Plants are okay, but in my opinion, there aren't enough differences between Annularia and Calamites.